6waves is making a hardcore return to its publishing roots. The Hong Kong-based company has already signed on 32 publishing deals with game development studios around the world, including Kabam and Atari. This massive influx of developers will climax with the publication of 40 games by the end of this year.

Here’s a list of the game studios that will be calling on 6waves’ publication services:

Adjoy, China

Antic Entertainment, Canada

Atari, USA

Big Blue Bubble, Canada

C.C.C.P., France

Chiwawa Games, Russia

Drimmi, Russia

Enteraction, UK

Game Insight, Russia

Gamecon, China

Guerillapps, USA

Hourblast Games, USA

iEvoTech, Russia

Imba Games, Isreal

izelus, USA

Jammy Pot, Korea

Jiangsu Juteng Network Technology, China

Kabam, USA

KOD Games, China

Large Animal/WMS, USA

Leiyoo, China

OSA, Russia

Pixonic, Russia

PlayDay, Hong Kong

Sharkus Games, UK

Socialinus, Korea

Starz/Large Animal, USA

UUC, China

White Rabbit Studios, Pakistan

Zodiak Active, UK

It’s still sad to see the end of Lolapps–though Ravenwood Fairis up and running for now–but it’s also kind of fun to see big lists of independent game studios, because it means that for all its changes, the industry is still creating. Also, people come up with some of the most awesome names for their studios.

In this age of fiercely independent developers and Kickstarter funding, it’s admittedly interesting to see that 6waves already has so many game studios lined up for its services. There’s long been a love-hate relationship between developers and publishers in the games industry: devs want to create, but publishers want/need to make money (“Can we throw a few cats in here? Kids love cats!” “But it’s a game about a robot apocalypse.” etc). 6waves’ long history in the industry is an asset, but hopefully their popularity is at least partially owed to being able to compromise with developers who just want to make cool games.

Then again, it’s not like Kickstarter can fund everything in the universe, though it’d be nice if it could.